| From: | Vincent Pellerin <Vincent.Pellerin@***.GMC.ULAVAL.CA> |
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| Subject: | threat rating vs karma |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Apr 1995 14:07:09 -0400 |
>Recently in my games I have come up with an interesting idea for Threat
>Dice. Threat dice are used to take the place of Pools and to make the
>villians tougher. The problem is, that players have a karma pool to reroll
>failures.
Thats not a problem..well, i dont see it as such.
>What I have started doing to off-set this is to give NPC's a karma pool
>equal to 1/2 their threat dice.
>Threat Dice 2 = karma pool of 1 (basically one butt saving reroll)
>Over all it seems to work rather well in the game and make things go a
>little bit better.
A little bit better but more bookeeping, wich was reduce by the
threat rating.
The karma pool is supposed to be the "edge" of the shadowrunner,
their luck. In some fight the opposition have mostly the same strenght as
the runners. I really don't think a npc should have a karma pool, and this
beside the added pool to take care of (well, maybe if it is a MAJOR NPC).
It is supposed to be used to save your skin when your luck turns, but when
the PC have some experience, the karma pool can climb to 12 really fast.
Following the basic rules the runner can use it at each "encounter". In our
game this was pretty unbalancing, make the runner pretty unstoppable. More,
i read in one KAGE that the pool was supposed to be used only in combat.
After much deliberations it was decide that we all wanted to use the pool in
other situations than combat but it was too powerful if it refreshed two or
three time during an adventure. So we decided this..
1-The karma pool refresh at the end of the run during the "good karma"
distribution. So all use of the pool betwen adventures is substracted from
the nest run karma pool.
2-It can be used for anything, from learning spells to heal from cyberware
implantation.
3-We dont always round up to dertemine how much good karma goes into the
karma pool, the GM usually decide when.
This permit the karma pool to be used on two thing : What's important to the
character and to save it skin.
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